Agricultural Census 2003

Sketched village maps which indicated relative location of household, holdings and names of heads of households, prepared in 2002 by the SRLD surveyors served as the basis for planning of field operations. A pilot census was conducted by the SLRD in December 2002. Training was targeted at different level of census functionaries and covered census enumeration, procedures for manual data editing, and post-enumeration survey. Complete enumeration of all holdings was carried out during the census. The questionnaire for listing of household contained questions to identify agricultural holdings and special holdings. For main census enumeration, separate questionnaires were used for agricultural holdings and operations relating to Commercial Livestock and Poultry, Household Fishing and Aquaculture.

Myanmar Agriculture Census 2003 was carried out using complete enumeration method so that the result of census will provide the most important and basic information for formulation of future development plans and measures. Since the Myanmar Agricultural Census 2003 was conducted in complete basis, enumeration of census covered the entire country except highly urban areas, some remote areas where transportation facilities were not good enough to conduct the enumeration. At the time of census, there were 9 States and 8 Divisions with 63 districts, 324 townships, about 12,900 village tracts and about 58,000 villages in the Union of Myanmar. However, of the 324 townships, only 283 townships were included in the census.